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To: Dan Spangenberg who wrote (9041)	10/10/1999 8:52:00 PM
From: wily	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Dan, I don't think we were talking about 8-port units. The discussion I remember was about smaller switches that approach hubs in pricing. Dave Hanson bought the D-Link I believe. These are the two units we were looking at: buy.com buy.com I never bought anything. Couldn't come up with a good reason for doing so (eg. needing a network). w

To: Dan Spangenberg who wrote (9041)	10/31/1999 12:41:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

>>recommendation on a 8 port hub? Dan, sorry not to have answered earlier - catching up slowly on the thread after my recent burial and memorial service <g>. I bought an 8-port Hawking Technology switch model PN808ES several months ago for (about) $150. It's a 10/100 full duplex switch. Each port is full duplex at 100mb in each direction simultaneously, independent of the others. Auto sensing by port. I currently run 4 ports at 100mb and 2 at 10. I've been very pleased with it. Except for the inevitable network setup time when a network drive hasn't been accessed for a while, I can't tell the difference between a network disk and a local disk, at least subjectively. I haven't done any benchmarks--must do that one of these days. Spots